A collaborative, pre-standardization initiative strives to build consensus on use cases, metadata, and best practices for translation APIs.
For professionals handling multilingual content, the translation round-trip – or the transfer of data between various platforms and systems – is an important factor that can have a significant impact on project cost and time to completion. If you stop to think about the complexity of modern-day content management and the numerous types of systems involved, you can see how desirable interoperability is, and why it’s worthwhile to strive for a standardized approach to the translation round-trip.
The problem
This common challenge has traditionally been solved by using API integration, or system-to-system communication that enables automation of repetitive tasks such as extraction and file transfer. The problem, however, is that there is an overabundance of customized APIs between a staggering number of systems and platforms. Customized API solutions require a commitment to a particular ...
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